Gears of War Xbox 360 vs. Xbox One Gameplay Comparison

The Gears of War: Ultimate Edition beta is running on the Xbox One at the moment so we captured a bunch of gameplay from the Gridlock and Canals maps and compared them to their original Xbox 360 counterparts.

I'm going to go ahead and say it, but why does the xb1 version look flat and washed out compared to 360? Ground shots and walls on 360 look bumpy as anything whilst they look flat as a pancake on xb1. Seems weird

@Orbilator It doesn't in person. I have the original on 360 and obviously the beta on x1, and I can say that the x1 is far cleaner with way better textures and lighting!! Then there's the framerate, it's just way better in every way. Love it!!!

It's already out. Glitches like that ruined gears for most of my freinds.. I hyped up gears MP with all my friends, and they all bought copies.. then they stopped playing after crab walkers and douchebags going "out of the map" would make a game of 5 rounds take like 30 minutes, and it also sucked when people would quit right when you are about to win. All these things are fixed, so, gears is back and it really IS better than before.

And it's becoming a new trend. I don't understand why more and more games are ditching shiny graphics with heavy lighting and contrast. Now resolution is such a big deal that everything is made flat so you can see the textures better.

60fps feels amazing for this game but I'm a little let down that the game looks washed out on xbox one. I prefer the textures and lighting in the original... hope it's just a beta issue that will be fixed prior to launch.

Beta was amazing but mostly bc of the gameplay and feele of getting gear on xb1 for the first time. The graphic will be upgraded by release for sure more blood and more detail. It runs at 1080 and 60fps so that is enough said in itself it looks amazing while running smooth. Cant wait for the release!

Was that confirmed for BC? That's a strange move by MS marketing team, I imagine they will tactically decide what gets given BC and what doesn't based on whether a remaster is coming out or if the game already exists on Xbox One (for eg CoD:AW)

I understand your point but gow UE will be full of players so you wont be stuck playing execution on gridlock over and over, dedicated servers so you wont have to put up with overpowered hosts, the pc content that us 360 owners never got and entry into the gears 4 beta.

All in all its a good deal they might even release a dlc 5 months down the line.... Fingers crossed its operation midnight.

Good god, Gears of War 1 has aged incredibly well, wow! What game from 2006 still looks that good?

Also, it's annoying that they've disregarded the original game's aesthetic in favour of the newer GeOW look. I felt this this way about GeOW 1 to GeOW 2, and my opinion still hasn't changed; the original had a subtly gothic (more obvious in some locations) and gloomy vibe quite reminiscent of a horror game, the new palette is too vivid and colourful.

All they needed to do was up texture resolution and improve the lighting. They have completely changed the feel of the enviornments, making them seem a lot more sterile.

To be honest, I just want Hoarde mode back other wise the multiplayer game is just a playground for snipers and shotgun players. The machine gun is about as useful as making paper darts with damp paper.

Ediots! As an elite gears of war Plyer and fan, this is not a port of the original game from the 360.any true fan would know that. First of all, the gameplay is not the same,the game is hit detection,movement are all unbalanced.what's the sense of having dedicated servers when you get the drop on somebody with the shotgun and they turn around shoot you once and you die?

The beta has a long way to go before it marches the perfection of the original. The sound effects are terribly off,the turn and movement speed is ridiculously slow and off,its hard to line up shots,due to the game unbalanced and slow reaction times and the hit detection a lot of times feels like you are shooting blanks.fix please. Also the gears of war three sensitivity is off and needs to go.bring back the low ,medium and high settings.

As far as the gfx comparison go's it looks really good in person but watching this video on the web the 360 version looks better lol the beta looks brighter than the original but I guess at the end of the day in person it looks better than the original, at least in some areas.the water on the gridlock level looks fake on the one.